Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,227 5,799 7,219
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.99% 23.22% 19.25%
As % of the General category 34.64% 36.12% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,254 3,879 5,027
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £448 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £590
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -5.93% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 106 247
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.80 £12.83
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.33 £15.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +0.07%
75th Percentile £54.36 £65.19 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.95 £55.50
UK median hourly rate £35.27 £37.02 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.74% +37.11% -6.86%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,749 16,057 21,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.81% 64.28% 57.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,466 10,331 13,650
10th Percentile £313 £281 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 784 1,843
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.86 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.18 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -11.85% +14.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £28.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +15.09% -9.68% +3.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,932 £575 -4.17% 2,017
North of England +2 1,281 £500 +7.53% 615
South East -1 693 £500 -4.76% 870
North West +4 679 £466 +3.44% 321
Midlands 0 644 £500 +11.11% 387
Yorkshire 0 558 £525 +10.53% 222
West Midlands +1 471 £503 +0.60% 221
South West -3 378 £525 - 252
East of England +3 196 £520 -9.57% 191
East Midlands -1 166 £469 +10.95% 164
North East -19 45 £500 +13.64% 83
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 291 (3.54%) Confluence
2 202 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 63 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 47 (0.57%) Apache
6 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.32%) CMS
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.15%) Ethereum
11 12 (0.15%) IIS
12 11 (0.13%) Appian
12 11 (0.13%) Camunda
12 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.073%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.061%) HCL Notes
14 5 (0.061%) Mendix
Applications
1 458 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 99 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.049%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.049%) Trello
10 3 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.036%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 299 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 95 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 80 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 80 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 70 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
6 42 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
7 40 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 39 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
9 38 (0.46%) Aladdin
10 35 (0.43%) SAP FI
11 33 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
12 30 (0.36%) SAP CO
13 28 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 25 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
17 22 (0.27%) SAP ERP
18 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
19 20 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,328 (16.14%) Azure
2 953 (11.58%) AWS
3 570 (6.93%) Power Platform
4 417 (5.07%) GCP
5 286 (3.48%) SaaS
6 281 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 257 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 211 (2.56%) GitHub
9 187 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 163 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 161 (1.96%) Entra ID
12 137 (1.67%) Serverless
13 108 (1.31%) Amazon S3
14 100 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 98 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 96 (1.17%) OCI
17 86 (1.05%) dbt
18 85 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
19 79 (0.96%) OpenShift
20 78 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 148 (1.80%) Firewall
2 126 (1.53%) Network Security
3 67 (0.81%) DNS
3 67 (0.81%) VPN
4 56 (0.68%) WAN
5 55 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.46%) BGP
7 32 (0.39%) HTTP
7 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 31 (0.38%) SSL
9 28 (0.34%) DHCP
10 26 (0.32%) OSPF
11 25 (0.30%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 22 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.23%) VSAN
16 18 (0.22%) Internet
17 17 (0.21%) VLAN
18 16 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (5.98%) Power BI
2 238 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 219 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (1.96%) Metadata
4 161 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 146 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 126 (1.53%) Tableau
7 122 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 88 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 72 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
10 68 (0.83%) Big Data
11 62 (0.75%) Oracle Database
12 57 (0.69%) BigQuery
13 49 (0.60%) MongoDB
14 47 (0.57%) Power Query
15 45 (0.55%) Delta Lake
16 43 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
16 43 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 38 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
18 37 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 602 (7.32%) JIRA
2 203 (2.47%) Git
3 150 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.09%) GitLab
5 55 (0.67%) JUnit
6 45 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.41%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (0.32%) Postman
10 25 (0.30%) MLflow
10 25 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.26%) ERwin
13 20 (0.24%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.23%) Maven
15 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.18%) TeamCity
17 14 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 14 (0.17%) Gradle
17 14 (0.17%) Hudson
General
1 2,394 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 1,555 (18.90%) Banking
3 1,073 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (5.55%) Public Sector
5 368 (4.47%) Legal
6 329 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 321 (3.90%) Investment Banking
8 305 (3.71%) Front Office
9 274 (3.33%) Retail
10 269 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 201 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 197 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
13 162 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 145 (1.76%) Local Government
15 136 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 132 (1.60%) General Ledger
17 128 (1.56%) Billing
18 126 (1.53%) Law
19 121 (1.47%) Marketing
20 119 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,190 (14.46%) Analyst
2 923 (11.22%) Senior
3 877 (10.66%) Lead
4 832 (10.11%) Developer
5 788 (9.58%) Architect
6 629 (7.65%) Project Manager
7 591 (7.18%) Business Analyst
8 531 (6.45%) Consultant
9 317 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
10 286 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 209 (2.54%) Senior Manager
12 191 (2.32%) Financial Analyst
13 172 (2.09%) Accountant
13 172 (2.09%) Data Analyst
14 169 (2.05%) Finance Manager
15 168 (2.04%) Java Developer
16 163 (1.98%) Software Engineer
17 158 (1.92%) IT Manager
18 156 (1.90%) Senior Developer
19 154 (1.87%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (3.03%) .NET
1 249 (3.03%) REST
2 244 (2.97%) React
3 234 (2.84%) Kafka
4 191 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
5 177 (2.15%) Middleware
6 151 (1.84%) Spring
7 148 (1.80%) Spring Boot
8 119 (1.45%) RESTful
9 110 (1.34%) Redux
10 104 (1.26%) PySpark
11 102 (1.24%) Node.js
12 85 (1.03%) AngularJS
13 81 (0.98%) JSON
14 75 (0.91%) OAuth
15 70 (0.85%) XML
16 61 (0.74%) CSS
17 58 (0.70%) Pandas
18 56 (0.68%) OpenID
19 55 (0.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 384 (4.67%) Onboarding
2 352 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 348 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 226 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 202 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 187 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 160 (1.94%) Fixed Income
8 156 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 153 (1.86%) Derivative
10 148 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
11 142 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 139 (1.69%) Data Centre
13 118 (1.43%) Equities
14 116 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 107 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 100 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 100 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 93 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
18 88 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
19 83 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 287 (3.49%) Windows
2 255 (3.10%) Linux
3 133 (1.62%) Unix
4 63 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 35 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.34%) Android
9 28 (0.34%) zOS
10 20 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.085%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.073%) VMS
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.049%) MVS
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,766 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,693 (20.58%) Agile
3 1,153 (14.01%) Migration
4 1,070 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
5 953 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 891 (10.83%) DevOps
7 889 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 862 (10.48%) CI/CD
9 861 (10.47%) AI
10 821 (9.98%) Analytics
11 818 (9.94%) ERP
12 744 (9.04%) Decision-Making
13 724 (8.80%) Project Management
14 692 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 690 (8.39%) Validation
16 684 (8.31%) Data Modelling
17 630 (7.66%) User Acceptance Testing
18 619 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
19 603 (7.33%) Change Management
20 533 (6.48%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,141 (13.87%) SQL
2 1,015 (12.34%) Python
3 563 (6.84%) Java
4 357 (4.34%) C#
5 241 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 238 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 195 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 77 (0.94%) C++
9 76 (0.92%) Bash
10 73 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 68 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 67 (0.81%) Go
13 55 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 54 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 45 (0.55%) VBA
16 44 (0.53%) Scala
17 32 (0.39%) Bicep
18 30 (0.36%) Apex Code
19 29 (0.35%) Rust
20 28 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 667 (8.11%) Degree
2 635 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 455 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 210 (2.55%) ACCA
5 208 (2.53%) PMP
6 187 (2.27%) CIMA
7 176 (2.14%) PMI Certification
8 161 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 141 (1.71%) CISSP
10 129 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 87 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 82 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 80 (0.97%) CISM
14 76 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 61 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 44 (0.53%) AWS Certification
18 38 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 34 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 31 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 514 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 358 (4.35%) QA
3 310 (3.77%) PMO
4 287 (3.49%) GDPR
5 157 (1.91%) NIST
6 128 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 114 (1.39%) IFRS
8 100 (1.22%) SLA
9 88 (1.07%) GRC
10 87 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 77 (0.94%) Accessibility
12 62 (0.75%) GAAP
13 61 (0.74%) PCI DSS
14 55 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 36 (0.44%) NCSC
16 35 (0.43%) PSD2
16 35 (0.43%) SEPA
16 35 (0.43%) Solvency II
17 31 (0.38%) IFRS 17
18 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 260 (3.16%) Docker
2 171 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.34%) vSphere
5 21 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.15%) RACF
9 11 (0.13%) NFS
10 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.073%) GPFS
11 6 (0.073%) KVM
12 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.036%) GridGain
14 3 (0.036%) SRDF
15 2 (0.024%) ACF2
15 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.024%) IAG
Systems Management
1 369 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 244 (2.97%) Terraform
3 133 (1.62%) Ansible
4 75 (0.91%) Grafana
5 67 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (0.60%) SCCM
8 40 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.30%) Control-M
10 19 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
17 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,063 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 678 (8.24%) Oracle
3 656 (7.97%) SAP
4 294 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 254 (3.09%) Databricks
6 203 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 181 (2.20%) Google
8 123 (1.50%) Workday
9 110 (1.34%) VMware
10 106 (1.29%) Splunk
11 98 (1.19%) IBM
12 95 (1.15%) Cisco
13 90 (1.09%) CyberArk
14 64 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 62 (0.75%) Citrix
16 54 (0.66%) Sage
17 53 (0.64%) Bloomberg
18 51 (0.62%) Ariba
19 49 (0.60%) Informatica
20 46 (0.56%) Murex